New techniques to quantify what lived in and on preserved animals throw light on how parasite abundance has changed over time. Situated on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington, the Burke ...

This image captured by a Schmidt Ocean Institute remotely operate vehicle shows parasites had burrowed into the head of a fish in the South Atlantic. Schmidt Ocean Institute video screengrab A ...

Take the flatworm parasite Euhaplorchis californiensis, for example. When it infects the small, colorful California killifish, the fish swims in a jerky, conspicuous way close to the water surface.

A novel species of parasitic isopod, active in the buccal cavity (mouth space) of marine fishes, has been identified in the Bay of Bengal by researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). It ...

In 2017, salmon caught in Alaska was found to have tapeworms. “Previously, the parasite was confined to fish from Asia, but as recently as January of 2018, cases of contracting tapeworm from raw ...

This image captured by a Schmidt Ocean Institute remotely operate vehicle shows parasites had burrowed into the head of a fish in the South Atlantic. Schmidt Ocean Institute video screengrab A ...